Gartner’s research on next-generation firewalls and how they are changing the enterprise firewall marketplace is pretty compelling.  And the recommendation to migrate from traditional firewalls and IPS to next generation firewalls at refresh time is very clear.  Here’s your chance to hear from Greg Young, Gartner Research VP, and one of the authors of the [...]

One of my colleagues recently observed that 2010 is the year when every firewall vendor jumps on the “application control” bandwagon and says they do what Palo Alto Networks does. Specifically identify and control applications. Firewall vendors are taking the path of least resistance to address the application control requirement by adding application signatures to [...]

Whereas early social engineering efforts convinced someone to provide a password or other information via a convincing phone call or conversation, today’s social engineering efforts are fare more nefarious, as evidenced in great detail within the recently published report: Shadows in the Cloud: Investigating Espionage 2.0.